Earlier in the day, a spokeswoman for the Israeli Defense Forces said that the Israeli artillery on Monday shelled border areas in southern Lebanon in response to an attack against the Israeli military vehicle patrolling the border.

The recent wave of firings on the Lebanese-Israeli border has started after Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group’s activist Samir Kuntar was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential building near the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Kuntar served nearly 30 years in an Israeli prison for murder of four Israeli citizens and was released in 2008 as part of a prisoner swap with Hezbollah.